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Andy Stanton will be talking about Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear and the Children's Laureates' list of all time favourite books on BBC Radio 5 Live Hit 'listen again/Tuesday' and go to 1hr 39 min in....
Five children's laureates have voted for their favourite children's books of all time. Those to vote were: 1999 - 2001 Laureate : Quentin Blake (illustrator, did lots of Roald Dahl's pictures)
2001 - 2003 Laureate : Anne Fine (work includes Bills New Frock, The Flour Babies, Madame Doubtfire)
.2003 - 2005 Laureate : Michael Morpurgo (work includes The Wreck of the Zanzibar, The Butterfly Lion, Kensuke's Kingdom and Private Peaceful) 2005 - 2007 Laureate : Jacqueline Wilson ( work includes The Story of Tracy Beaker, Double Act)
2007 - 2009 Laureate : Michael Rosen (work includes classic picture book We're Going on a Bear Hunt)
The works have been selected for The Laureates' Table, a promotion at bookseller
Waterstone's. It's part of the 10th anniversary celebrations for the
children's laureate. Only five of the 35 books selected were published in the last 20 years and a
fifth of the titles were released in the 19th century.
Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist was the oldest, a clear 170 years before the
newest title to make the grade - Mr Gum And The Dancing Bear by Andy Stanton,
published last year.
Seven titles from the 1930s made it, including The Sword In The Stone by TH
White, Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild and PL Travers's classic Mary Poppins. The most popular AUTHORS were
E Nesbit (Five Children And It and The Railway Children
Robert Louis Stevenson (A Child's Garden Of Verses and Treasure Island Illustrator Quentin Blake was the first children's laureate, chosen in 1999, and Michael Rosen
is the most recent.
Here is the full list of titles on the Laureates' Table:
:: Chosen by Quentin Blake:
1. Little Tim And The Brave Sea Captain by Edward Ardizzone (published 1936)
2. Queenie The Bantam by Bob Graham (1997)
3. The Box Of Delights by John Masefield (1935)
4. Rose Blanche by Ian McEwan and Roberto Innocenti (1985)
5. Five Children And It by E Nesbit (1902)
6. Snow White by Josephine Poole (1991)
7. Stuart Little by EB White (1945)
:: Chosen by Anne Fine:
8. The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken (1963)
9. Absolute Zero by Helen Cresswell (1978)
10. Just William by Richmal Crompton (1922)
11. Journey To The River Sea by Iva Ibbotson (2001)
12. Lavender's Blue by Kathleen Lines (1954)
13. A Child's Garden Of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson (1885)
14. The Sword In The Stone by TH White (1938)
:: Chosen by Michael Morpurgo:
15. Five Go To Smuggler's Top by Enid Blyton (1945)
16. Mike Mulligan And His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton (1939)
17. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (1838)
18. Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (1902)
19. A Book Of Nonsense by Edward Lear (1846)
20. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
21. The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde (1888)
:: Chosen by Jacqueline Wilson:
22. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868/69)
23. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1905)
24. What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge (1872)
25. The Family From One End Street by Eve Garnett (1937)
26. The Railway Children by E Nesbit (1906)
27. Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild (1936)
28. Mary Poppins by PL Travers (1934)
:: Chosen by Michael Rosen:
29. Clown by Quentin Blake (1995)
30. The Diary Of A Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947)
31. Emil And The Detectives by Erich Kastner (1928)
32. Not Now, Bernard by David McKee (1980)
33. Fairy Tales by Terry Jones (1981)
34. Mr Gum And The Dancing Bear by Andy Stanton (2008)
35. Daz 4 Zoe by Robert Swindells (1990) |
